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• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
  • F01D—NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES
  • F01D5/00—Blades; Blade-carrying members; Heating, heat-insulating, cooling or antivibration means on the blades or the members
  • F01D5/12—Blades
  • F01D5/14—Form or construction
  • F01D5/18—Hollow blades, i.e. blades with cooling or heating channels or cavities; Heating, heat-insulating or cooling means on blades
  • F01D5/187—Convection cooling
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
  • F01D—NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES
  • F01D5/00—Blades; Blade-carrying members; Heating, heat-insulating, cooling or antivibration means on the blades or the members
  • F01D5/12—Blades
  • F01D5/14—Form or construction
  • F01D5/18—Hollow blades, i.e. blades with cooling or heating channels or cavities; Heating, heat-insulating or cooling means on blades
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
  • F05D—INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
  • F05D2220/00—Application
  • F05D2220/30—Application in turbines
  • F05D2220/32—Application in turbines in gas turbines
  • F05D2220/323—Application in turbines in gas turbines for aircraft propulsion, e.g. jet engines
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
  • F05D—INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
  • F05D2240/00—Components
  • F05D2240/20—Rotors
  • F05D2240/30—Characteristics of rotor blades, i.e. of any element transforming dynamic fluid energy to or from rotational energy and being attached to a rotor
  • F05D2240/301—Cross-sectional characteristics
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
  • F05D—INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
  • F05D2260/00—Function
  • F05D2260/20—Heat transfer, e.g. cooling
  • F05D2260/221—Improvement of heat transfer
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
  • Y02T50/00—Aeronautics or air transport
  • Y02T50/60—Efficient propulsion technologies, e.g. for aircraft

Definitions

• the present invention relates to the field of aircraft turbomachines and more particularly relates to the cooling of the turbine blades of turbines within such turbomachines.
• FIG. 1 represents the blade 10 of a turbomachine turbine blade of a known type, seen in section along a transverse plane of the blade, ie a plane orthogonal to the direction of the span or the length of the blade, which merges with the radial direction relative to the motor axis when the blade is mounted in a turbomachine turbine.
• the blade 10 comprises an internal cooling circuit 12 formed of three cavities extending in the radial direction, arranged between the intrados wall 14 and the extrados wall 16, and interconnected in series so as to allow the circulation of a flow of cooling air from an inlet section of the first cavity 18 to the second cavity 20 and then to an outlet section of the third cavity 22.
• the inlet section of the first cavity 18 is connected to air supply means integrated into a root of the blade and is therefore arranged at a radially inner end of the first cavity.
• the outlet section of the third cavity 22 is generally formed near the radially outer end of the cavity, and generally takes the form of orifices formed in the intrados and / or extrados walls and / or in a bottom wall delimiting the radially outer end of the cavity.
• the air flows in the first and third cavities 18, 22 in the radial outward direction, while the air flows in the second cavity 20 in the inward radial direction.
• the invention aims in particular to provide a simple, economical and effective solution to this problem. It proposes for this purpose an aircraft turbine engine turbine blade, comprising a blade root defining a radially inner end of the blade and a blade extending radially outwards from the blade root and having an intrados wall and an extrados wall connected to the intrados wall at a leading edge and a trailing edge of the blade, the blade comprising at least one internal cooling circuit.
• Said internal cooling circuit comprises a plurality of interconnected cavities in series and distributed in:
• extrados cavity at least one cavity extending radially along the extrados wall, hereinafter referred to as "extrados cavity"
• Intrados cavities cavities extending radially along the intrados wall, hereinafter referred to as "intrados cavities", in a number equal to the number of extrados cavity (s) increased by one.
• the or each extrados cavity is separated from at least one of the intrados cavities by a first inner wall of the blade extending between the intrados and extrados walls.
• Each intrados cavity has an air inlet section and an air outlet section, said air outlet section of the intrados cavity being arranged radially outwardly with respect to said air inlet section. air inlet of this same intrados cavity.
• the or each extrados cavity has an air inlet section connected to the air outlet section of one of the intrados cavities and an air outlet section connected to the inlet section of the air inlet section. air of another of the intrados cavities, said air outlet section of the extrados cavity being arranged radially inward with respect to said air inlet section of said same extrados cavity .
• said air inlet section of one of the intrados cavities is connected to means for supplying cooling air.
• the invention allows the air circulating along the intrados wall to be deflected by the Coriolis force in the direction of this intrados wall and that the air circulating along the extrados wall is deflected by the Coriolis force in the direction of this extrados wall.
• the invention thus makes it possible to considerably improve the homogeneity of the cooling procured by the cooling circuit of the blade.
• said at least one extrados cavity is arranged opposite two of said intrados cavities, from which it is separated by said first inner wall of the blade, and said at least one extrados cavity comprises at least one first deflector projecting from the upper surface wall towards the first inner wall of the blade.
• said first deflector has a concavity oriented radially outwards and in the direction of a side wall of the extrados cavity disposed on the side of the intrados cavity to which is connected the outlet section of air of said at least one extrados cavity.
• Such a first deflector makes it possible to orient a portion of the air flow towards an area separated from the main path followed by the air within the cooling circuit.
• the first deflector is connected to the first inner wall of the blade.
• the first deflector may stop at a distance from the first inner wall of the blade.
• each intrados cavity is separated from at least one other adjacent intrados cavity by a second inner wall of the blade connecting the intrados wall to the first inner wall of the blade.
• the first deflector advantageously comprises a radially outer end extending in the air inlet section of said at least one extrados cavity and a radially inner end connected to said side wall of the extrados cavity disposed on the the intrados cavity to which is connected the outlet section of the extrados cavity, said first deflector being provided with through-air openings.
• the deflector thus makes it possible to orient a portion of the airflow towards a radially outer zone of the extrados cavity, this zone being offset with respect to the air inlet of this cavity.
• said at least one extrados cavity comprises at least one second deflector projecting from the upper surface wall towards the first inner wall of the blade, stopping at a distance from the first internal wall, and configured in an inverted V-shape with a vertex radially outward.
• Such a deflector makes it possible to orient a portion of the airflow towards lateral regions of the cavity.
• the air outlet section of one of the intrados cavities of said cooling circuit communicates with the outside of the blade through air outlet orifices formed in at least one of :
• outlet orifices are preferably arranged in relatively hot regions of the intrados wall.
• the blade comprises another internal cooling circuit similar to said internal cooling circuit.
• the invention also relates to an aircraft turbine engine turbine, comprising at least one rotary disc provided with blades of the type described above.
• the invention also relates to a turbomachine for an aircraft, comprising at least one turbine of the type described above.
• FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of an aircraft turbine engine turbine blade according to a preferred embodiment of the invention
• FIGS. 3 to 5 are diagrammatic cross-sectional views of the blade of the blade of FIG. 2, respectively along the planes III-III, IV-IV and V-V of FIG. 2;
• FIG. 6 is a partial diagrammatic view, developed in plan, of the extrados wall of the blade of the blade of FIG. 2, viewed from the inside of an extrados cavity of an internal cooling circuit of FIG. the blade;
• FIG. 7 is a view similar to Figure 4, illustrating an alternative embodiment of the invention.
• FIG. 8 is a view similar to Figure 4, illustrating another embodiment of the invention.
• FIG. 2 illustrates an aircraft turbine engine turbine blade 30 according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, generally comprising a blade root 32 to which is connected a blade 34 ending in a top 35 of the blade blade on the opposite side to the blade root 32.
• the blade root has a radially inner portion for allowing the retention of the blade by interlocking in a rotor disk, in a well known manner.
• the blade root is connected to the blade via an aerodynamic platform 36 for internally defining a primary flow flow channel within the turbine.
• the direction X is a direction corresponding to the direction of the motor axis when the blade 30 is mounted on a rotor disk within a turbomachine turbine.
• the Z direction is the radial direction relative to the X direction, which merges with the direction of the length or span of dawn.
• the direction Y is such that the three directions X, Y and Z form an orthogonal reference. A plane is said to be transversal if it is parallel to the X and Y directions.
• the blade generally comprises a lower surface wall 40 and a lower wall. extrados 42 connected to each other at a leading edge 44 and at a trailing edge 46 of the blade.
• the blade 34 comprises an internal cooling circuit 50 formed of three cavities interconnected in series and each extending radially, that is to say in the direction of the span of the blade.
• first cavity 52 a first cavity 52
• second cavity 54 extends along the extrados wall 42, and is for convenience denominated “Extrados cavity” in what follows.
• first and third cavities 52, 56 extend along the intrados wall 40, and are referred to as “intrados cavities” in the following.
• the lower surface cavities 52, 56 of the cooling circuit are thus two in number, whereas this cooling circuit comprises a single extrados cavity 54.
• the extrados cavity 54 is separated from the intrados cavities 52 and 56 by a first internal wall 58 of the blade, which extends between the intrados 40 and extrados 42 walls, at a distance from each of these walls. .
• the two intrados cavities 52 and 56 are separated from each other by a second inner wall 59 of the blade, which connects the intrados wall 40 to the first inner wall 58 of the blade.
• each intrados cavity 52, 56 has an air inlet section 60, 62 (Fig. 5) and an air outlet section 64, 66 (Fig. 3), arranged so that the air outlet 64, 66 of each intrados cavity is positioned radially outwardly with respect to the air inlet section 60, 62 of the same intrados cavity, as illustrated by the relative position of 1ll-III and VV planes of FIG. 2 which respectively correspond to FIGS. 3 and 5.
• the air inlet section 60, 62 of each intrados cavity 52, 56 forms a region of end radially inner of the cavity, while the air outlet section 64 of the intrados cavity 52 forms a radially outer end region of the cavity.
• the extrados cavity 54 has an air inlet section 68 connected to the air outlet section 64 of the intrados cavity 52, and the extrados cavity 54 has an outlet section of 70 is connected to the air inlet section 62 of the other intrados cavity 56.
• the air outlet section 70 of the extrados cavity is arranged radially inwardly with respect to the air inlet section 62.
• air inlet 68 of the same extrados cavity as illustrated by the relative position of the planes VV and III-III of FIG. 2 which respectively correspond to FIGS. 5 and 3.
• the section the air outlet 70 of the extrados cavity 54 forms a radially inner end region of the cavity, while the air inlet section 68 of this extrados cavity forms a radially outer end region of the cavity.
• the air inlet section 60 of the intrados cavity 52 (FIG. 5) is connected to a device for supplying cooling air integrated into the foot 32 of the blade 30.
• This air supply device of cooling is not visible in the figures and may be of a type known to those skilled in the art.
• the series interconnection of the three cavities 52, 54, 56 thus allows the circulation of a flow of cooling air from the air inlet 60 of the intrados cavity 52 connected to the air supply device of FIG. cooling down into the outlet section 66 of the other intrados cavity 56.
• the intrados cavity 56 communicates with the outside of the blade through air outlet orifices formed in the intrados wall (not visible in the figures). Additional air outlet ports of the intrados cavity 56 may be formed in a bottom wall delimiting a radially outer end of the cavity.
• the "air outlet section" 66 of the intrados cavity 56 corresponds to the portion of this cavity extending opposite the aforementioned air outlet orifices.
• the blade 34 also incorporates a leading edge cooling cavity 72 extending along the leading edge 44 of the blade and delimited by a third inner wall 74 of the blade connected on one side to the intrados wall 40 and on the other side to the extrados wall 42.
• the leading edge cooling cavity 72 communicates with the outside of the wall. dawn, for example by means of air outlet orifices formed through the walls of intrados and extrados (these orifices not being visible in the figures).
• the air supply of the leading edge cooling cavity 72 is preferably provided by a connection of this cavity to a cooling air supply device integrated with the root 32 of the blade 30, in a manner known in itself commonly referred to as "direct feeding". This device is generally separate from the device supplying the cooling circuit 50.
• the blade 34 has a trailing edge cooling cavity 76 extending along the trailing edge 46 of the blade and delimited by a fourth inner wall 78 of the blade connected on one side to the wall of the blade. 20 and on the other side to the extrados wall 42.
• the trailing edge cooling cavity 76 communicates with the outside of the blade by means of air outlet orifices formed through the Inlet wall 40 and taking for example the form of slots 79 (visible in Figure 2) extending substantially parallel to a transverse plane.
• the air supply of the trailing edge cooling cavity 76 is for example ensured by a connection of this cavity to a cooling air supply device integrated into the root 32 of the blade 30, in a known manner in itself commonly referred to as "direct feeding".
• This device is preferably separate from the device supplying the cooling circuit 50.
• FIG. 6 illustrates preferential characteristics of the cooling circuit 50, making it possible to optimize the efficiency of the latter. More precisely, FIG. 6 shows the extrados wall 42 viewed from inside the extrados cavity 54, in the Y direction, and developed in plan. For a better understanding of the operation, FIG. 6 also shows the outlet section 64 of the intrados cavity 52 and the inlet section 62 of the intrados cavity 56, which for convenience of drawing have been respectively represented. above and below the extrados cavity. It should be understood that these sections are actually not localized in this way, but facing this cavity and outside the plane of Figure 6.
• the extrados cavity 54 comprises a first deflector 80 projecting from the extrados wall 42 in the direction of the first internal wall 58 of the blade, ie in the direction decreasing Y ratings.
• the first deflector 80 is connected to the first inner wall 58, and is curved, with a concavity oriented radially outwards and towards the fourth inner wall 78 which forms a side wall of the cavity.
• extrados 54 defining the latter on the side of the trailing edge 46, that is to say more generally on the side of the intrados cavity 56 to which is connected the outlet section 70 of the extrados cavity.
• the first deflector 80 may have a free end extending away from the first inner wall 58.
• the first deflector 80 has a radially outer end portion 82 extending substantially in the Z and Y directions, to a radially outer end of the extrados cavity 54, ie typically to the bottom wall 83 of the blade closing cavities 52, 54, 56, 72, 76 in the radial outward direction.
• the radially outer end portion 82 preferably extends into the air inlet section 68 of the extrados cavity 54, hence on the side of the third inner wall 74.
• the first deflector 80 has a radially inner end portion 84 extending substantially in the X and Y directions, and connected to the fourth inner wall 78.
• the first deflector 80 has air passage holes 86.
• the extrados cavity 54 has second baffles 90 projecting from the upper wall 42 in the direction of the first inner wall 58 of the blade.
• the second baffles 90 each have a free end extending at a distance from the first internal wall 58.
• These second baffles 90 are configured in inverted V-shape with apex 92 oriented radially outwards, that is to say toward the wall bottom 83 delimiting the cavities 52, 54, 56, 72 and 76 on the side of the apex 35 of the blade.
• the respective summits 92 of the second baffles 90 are advantageously centered substantially on the same line parallel to the radial direction Z.
• deflectors or disrupters may be used alternatively or in addition.
• an arrangement of deflectors or disrupters similar to that described above with reference to FIG. 6 may be provided for the intrados wall within the intrados cavities 52, 56, and / or which relates to the internal walls 58, 74, 78, within the cavities 52, 54, 56.
• the disk carries a plurality of blades similar to the blade 30.
• the cooling circuit 50 is supplied with cooling air taken for example at a compressor stage of the turbomachine.
• the cooling air enters the intrados cavity 52 of the vane 30 via the air inlet section 60 of this cavity and then circulates radially outwards within this cavity, that is to say in the direction from the dawn foot 32 to the dawn apex 35.
• the cooling air then passes into the outlet section 64 of the intrados cavity 52 and then into the inlet section 68 of the extrados cavity 54 (arrow 100 in FIG. 3), and then the air circulates radially. inwards within this extrados cavity 54, that is to say in the direction from the blade tip 35 to the blade root 32 (arrow 102 in Figure 6).
• the cooling air then passes into the outlet section 70 of the extrados cavity 54 and into the inlet section 62 of the intrados cavity 56 (arrow 104 in FIG. 5), and then the air circulates radially. outwardly within this intrados cavity 56.
• the air circulating in the intrados cavities 52 and 56 thus circulates radially outwards while the air flowing in the extrados cavity 54 circulates radially inwards.
• the air circulating in the intrados cavities 52 and 56 is deflected towards the intrados wall 40 by the Coriolis force due to the rotation of the rotor, while the air circulating in the extrados cavity 54 is deflected to the upper wall 42 by the Coriolis force.
• the intrados and extrados walls are optimally cooled and homogeneous.
• successive reversals or connections between the different cavities forming the cooling circuit 50 are oriented generally in the direction of the thickness of the blade.
• the air circulating in the extrados cavity 54 is partly deflected by the first deflector 80 (arrow 106 of FIG. 6) in the direction of the fourth internal wall 78 in a radially external portion of the cavity so as to optimizing the cooling of an area 108 of the extrados cavity 54 near the radially outer end of this cavity and offset relative to the air outlet 64 of the intrados cavity 52.
• the air deflected by the first deflector 80 then passes through the air passage holes 86 and continues its path radially inwardly.
• the air flow 102 is partly deflected to the side walls of the extrados cavity 54, that is to say to the third and fourth inner walls 74 and 78 of the blade (arrows 110). This makes it possible to optimize the cooling of an area 112 of the extrados cavity 54 close to the radially inner end of this cavity and offset with respect to the air inlet 62 of the intrados cavity 56.
• FIG. 7 illustrates blade 34a of a blade according to an alternative embodiment of the invention, which is distinguished from blade 30 described above, in that blade 34a has two cooling circuits 50 and 50 '. Each of these cooling circuits is similar to the cooling circuit 50 of Figures 3 to 6.
• the intrados and extrados cavities 54 belonging to the cooling circuit 50 situated on the leading edge side 44 are separated respectively from the intrados and extrados cavities 54 ', belonging to the cooling circuit 50 'located on the trailing edge 46 side, by a fifth inner wall 113 of the blade connecting the intrados cavity 40 to the extrados cavity 42.
• each of the two cooling circuits 50 and 50' is connected to the cooling air supply device integrated with the foot 32 of the dawn 30.
• the or each cooling circuit according to the invention may comprise a higher number of cavities than in the examples described above, since the number of intrados cavities is equal to the number of extrados cavities increased of one.
• FIG. 8 illustrates blade 34b of a blade according to another embodiment of the invention, which differs from blade 30 described above in that blade 34b comprises a cooling circuit 50a comprising two extrados cavities and three intrados cavities interconnected in series.
• an intermediate intrados cavity 114 is positioned between the intrados cavity 52, connected to the cooling air supply device, and the intrados cavity 56 opening to the outside of the blade through the outlet ports described above.
• an extrados cavity 116 is positioned adjacent to the extrados cavity 54.
• the intrados cavities 114 and 56 are separated from each other by a fifth internal wall 118 of the blade connecting the intrados wall 40 to the first internal wall 58, while the extrados cavities 54 and 116 are separated from each other by a sixth internal wall 120 of the blade, connecting the first inner wall 58 to the extrados wall 42.
• the outlet section of the intermediate intrados cavity 114 is connected to the inlet section of the extrados cavity 116, and the outlet section of the extrados cavity 116 is connected to the inlet section of the intrados cavity 56.
• the cooling air circulates radially outwardly along the intrados wall 40 in each of the intrados cavities 52, 114 and 56, and circulates radially inwards along the wall of the wall. extrados 42 in each of the extrados cavities 54 and 116.

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